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 9"'S-vI~Av<=. l1»1900-J NOTES AND QUERIES. 103 till his resignation in 1856; but he was not appointed till a few months after his son, the late colonel, was born. W. D. SWEETING. Maxey, Market Deeping. “Tins WILL Nnvsr. Do.”-In the Spectator of 23 June,I£>. 870, the writer of an article on ‘The Two inds of Criticism ’ says :- “ Probably each school has its uses, as it has its defects. _ Johnsonian criticism hardened into the ‘This will never do ’ of the Edinburgh Review greet- ing to the ‘ Lyrical Ballads.’ French criticism has degenerated into the sloppiest phrase- mongering which the world has ever known. ’ Now the “greeting” referred to here was not accorded to the ‘Lyrical Ballads,’ but to the ‘ Excursion] It is the opening exclama- toig sentence of the famous article which .Ie rey_ described when he reprinted his ‘ Contributions to the Edinburgh Review] as containing “a pretty full view of my griefs and charges against Mr. Wordsworth.” The article is still readable, if only for the vigour and point of the last two paragraphs. ° THOMAS BAYNE. _Boon INSCRIPTION.-A short time ago I picked up a second-hand cop; of Quarles’s Emblems’ (1736, _London), an find written upon the frontispiece the following, which is an exact copy :- Sarrah Littleford her Book God give her Grass therein to look and not to Look but understand for Larning is Bettr than hous or Land when Land is gon and money Spent then Larning is most Exolent. It was probably written about 1762. WM. H. Corn. [Similar lines are fairly common.] DAVID BOUQUETT, Wivrcamaxnn.-We learn from Britten’s recently issued book, ‘Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,’ that this early London maker was of Blackfriars, and flourished 1610-40. In a MS. return of “Strangers” dwelling within the “ recinct of black lfriers” (Ward of Farringdon Within), October, 1635, in my possession, I find men- tion of this Bouquett as a Frenchman resident there for twenty-four years (i.e., 1611-35), living with his wife, four children, and three servants, and having come from Diep e. W. I.  V. Loan BnoUoIIAM’s CONFESSION.-OD the presumption that ‘N. & Q.’ will be “ read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested” three centuries hence, the following extract from Sir M. E. Grant DuH"s ‘Notes from a Diary,’ under date 25 February, 1871, merits insertion in its columns :- “The Breakfast Club met at Pollock’s, and Lacaita told us that Lord Brougham confessed in his presence at Brougham Hall, after denying it for thirt years, that he had written the article in the Edinburgh Review, which made Byron write ‘ English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.”’ J. B. MCGOVERN. St. Stephen’s Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. SHAKESPEARE AND ANIMAL EXPERIMEN TA- TION.-The following quotation on experi- ments on living animals seems worth putting on record, as so much interest is now taken in the subject. It occurs in ‘ Cymbeline,’ I. vii. 5 :- Queen. Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs? Cor. Pleaseth your Highness, ay: here they are, madam. But I beseech your Grace, without offence (My conscience bids me ask), wherefore you have Commended of me these most pois’nous complounds? Which are the movers of a languishing deat ; But, though slow, deadly. Queen. I do wonder, doctor Thou ask’st me such a cpiiestion. Have I not been Thy pupil long? Has t ou not learned me how To make perfumes? distil? preserve? ...... Having thus far roceeded glnless thou think’st me dev’lishl), is ’t not meet hat I did amplify m judgment in Other conclusions? If will try the forces Of these thy compounds on such creatures as We count not worth the hanging (but none human), To try the vigour of t-hem, and apply Allayments to their act, and by them gather Their sev’ral virtues and effects. Cor, Your highness Shall from this practice make but hard your heart; Besides, the seeing these effects will be Both noisome and infectious. Then, a little further on :- Cor. That she has VVill stupify and dull the sense a while ; Which first, perchance, she ’ll prove on cats and dogs, Then afterwards up higher. Again, in V. v., in Cornelius’s second speech :- Cor. The queen, sir very oft importun’d me To temper poisons for her ; still pretending The satisfaction of her knowledge, only In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs Of no esteem. Perhaps your readers can supply other? “ Comms .IUcUNnUs IN vm rno vEHIcULo EST.” (See 8"“ S. ix. 90, 192, 397.)-Much was said at the above references concern- in this proverbial saying and its variants. Allow me to add another instance of its occurrence in ‘The Complete Angler,’ by lzaak Walton, published originally in 1653 ;